Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-02

Struggles to keep it. the man who has il
not struggles to get it. Prices up; prices
down; losses, gains, Misrepresentation,
souglngs, underselling, buyers depreci-
a.ing, statesmen eXaggersting, tenants
seeking less rent, landlords demanding
more, GOLD tdgetty, struggles about
cttice, men who are in trying TO keep in;
men out tryln3 10 get in; slips, tumbIes,
defalcG,iOns, paniCs. catsstrophes. o
woman. thank God you have 8 home,
and that you may be queen in it.
Better be there than Wear V!ctoria's cor
OGet Better be there than carry the
purse OF q princess. Your abode msy be
humble, out you can, by your faith IN
God, ald your cheerfulness of demesnor,
Gid it with splendorS such IS an uphOI-
ster's hand never yet kindled. There
are a50des IN the city-hum5le, two
stories: four p!sin, uppspered rooms;
undesirable neIglDOod; Snd yet there IS
man mere this morning who would die
on inst threshold rather than surrender
It. Nhy? Il is home Whenever lie
thinks OF Il. ne sees angels of God hover
Ing around It. The ladders OF heaven are
let down TO that house. Over the chiId's
rough crib there ere the chantings Of an
Ge-5 Is those That broke over Bethlehem
1t IS home. These children may come up
aite- 5w1.le, aud they msy win high posi-
ton, sad they msy have en- stHuent resi-
dence; but they Will not until their
dying day forget that humble roof, under
w1IeA tleic father rested and their
mother sarg, snd their sister plsyed. 0,
Ii ycu would gather up al
TENDER MEMORIES,
81 the lights and shades OF the heart, ell
baIQUttings and reunions, oil filial, frs
ternsI, psternal and conjugal affections,
and yOI mad iIst four letters with which
20 spell out mat height aud depth, and
length and breath CT magnitude, and
eternity Of meaning, you would, with
streaming eyes, and trembling voice, snd
aGtattd hand, write it out in those four
living capitals, HOME.
WHAT right does woman want that is
grgnder than to be queen OF such 8 RESIN?
Why, the eagles of heaven .canuOt fly
across that dominion. Horses, painting
and with L2tbered hanks, ere not swift
enough TO run to the outpost of that
realm. They say that the sun never sets
upon the English empire; but | have to
tell you t1at on this realm Of woman's
influence, eternity never marks any
bounds. Isabella fed from the Spanish
throne, pursued by the nations alathems,
but she who is queen in 3 nome will
never lose her throne, and desth itself
viii only be the annexation Of heavenly
pri1Cipahties.
When you want 10 get your graudest
IdeA OF queen, you do not think OF
| Catherine of Russia, or of Anne of En-
gland, CT Marie Theresa OF Germany
but when you want to get your grsndest
idea q queen, you think Of the plain
Womsn Who sat opposite your father ~
the table, or walked with lin arm-in-arm
down lies pathway; sometimes to the
/ thanksgiving banquet, sometimes to the
/ grave, but always together soothing
/ your petty grlcts, correcting your child
/ ish W=yWarduess, joining in your iufau-
/ tile sports, listening TO your evening
/ prayers, t0iling for you with needle, CT at
the spinningWheel, sid on cold nights
! wrapping you up snug ard warm. And
/ then at last on that day when she ley in
the back room dying, and you saw her
/ take those thin hands with which
SHE ToILED FOR YOU
/ so long, and put them together in & diving
/ prayer tnat commended you TO the God
whom she had taught you TO trust-O,
/ she was the queen, The chsriots of God
came down 10 fetch her; and as she went
/ IL, all heaven rose up. You cannot think
OF her now without q rush Of tenderness
/ that stiT5 the deep foundations of your
/ soul, sid you feel SIS much child again
/ Is when you cried on her lap; and if you
! could bring her back again to speak lust
/ once more your name, as tenderly as she
| used 70 speak it, you would be willing to
| throw yourself on the ground and kiss the
sod that covers her, crying: "Mother
| mother" An. she was the Queen-she
was the queen. Now, can you tell me how
many thousand miles q woman like that
would have to travel down before she got
! 10 the baIlot-box? Compared with this
work Of training kings snd queens for
! God and eternity, how insignificant
| seems all this work of voting for alder
men and common COuncilmen, and
/ sheriTs, and constsbles, and mayors, and
| presidents. To make one such grand
woman es l have described how many
! thousands would you want OF those peo-
/ pie who 90 in the round of godlessness
and fashion, and dissipation, distorting
their body until in their monstrositie;
they seem to Guido the dromedary anG
| hippopOtamus Going as far toward dis
graceful apparel as they dare 90, so as
not 10 be arrested OF the police-tneil
behavior q sorrow to the good and 6
csricature of the vicious, and an insult
to that God who made them women anC
not gOrgons and tramping on, doWI
through 8 frivolous and dissipated life, tC
temporal and eternal dsmnetion.
0 woman, with the lightning of your
soul, strike dead 81 your feet all these
alIurements to dissipation and 10 fashion
Your immortal soul cannot BE fed upon
such garbage. God calls you up to en-
pire and dominion. VIII you have 1T
o, give to God your heart; give to Goo
your best energies; give 10 God
ALL YOUR CULTURE;
give to God al your refinement; give
yourself to Him, for this world and thu
next. Soon al these bright eyes will be-
quenched, and these voices will bt
hushed. For the last time you will looE
upon this fair earth. Fathers hand
mothers hand, sisters hand, child:
hand will be no more in yours. Ii vii
be night, and there will come up cold
wind from the Jordon, and you must
start. VIII it be q lone Woman on G
trackless moor? Al! no. Jesus will
come in that hour and offer His hand
snd He will say: "You stood by Ne
when you were well; now l will not de.
serc you when you are sick" One wave
Of His hand, and the storm will drop
and another wave of His hand, and mid.